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The FCC is in the midst of piloting a telehealth program with $100 million dollars. The grant includes money for both the innovation side (platforms and companies like mine) and money to improve infrastructure for rural areas.FCC advances work on $100M telehealth pilot programWhile I’m biased to our platform, Mend, I feel platform is only half the problem. So how can we increase use?Improve the platforms - There are platforms that are just video connections with really high bandwidth requirements. For rural areas, a lower bandwidth is required. And a transit connection so that instead of dropping the video call, the platform adjusts. So technology itself can improve - although that’s more of a private sector issue.Reimbursement - I hate to say it, but at the end of the day a physicians/health organization is looking at overhead. If they pay thousands of dollars for a program they want to get reimbursed. As of writing this, there are only 34 states with coverage and payment parity (where telehealth visits are paid the same as an in person visit). There are also location restrictions on top of that, which makes it even more challenging. Insurance needs to #1 reimbursement telehealth closer to an in person if it’s doing the same thing for a low acuity level visit and #2 allow remote telehealth.Full solution - just like a normal visit in an office, a patient must complete intake forms, assessments, etc for a telemedicine visit. How do you do that with a virtual visit? Well - depending again on the technology you can send out digital paperwork, appointment reminders, etc. There needs to be some type of regulation where if you’re going to do telemedicine you need to select a full platform OR pull different solutions to have the required pieces. Similar to the meaningful use standards when they first required EHRs.

“Good health for Well Being” is one out of seventeen Sustainable Development Goal stated by United Nations in 2015. Good Health unleash capacity of taking a good decision. It motivates and energizes in performing every physical and mental tasks with ease.Technology is a powerful medium for information flow. In order to solve all sustainable goals literacy will be one strong solution. Therefore to achieve any goal technology plays strong role. We can provide solution in form of software tools and services.Mobile technology has been successful in replacing use of technologies such as desktop & laptops. Internet use is widely spread due to availability of Mobile phone and smart technologies embedded within. Achieving solutions for solving any problem big or small mobile technology will be a perfect platform.In Health Informatics E-Health is a new term. It was quoted sometime near 1990s. Telemedicine was in boom at that time. But it closed a barrier that telemedicine failed to suffice. That is “ Telemedicine only focused the medical solutions or treatment to patients. Use of telemedicine was only for doctor patient relationship. But E-Health provided intuitive solutions breaching this barrier. Some of those solutions are HealthCare data sharing between doctor. patient and associated bodies for tracking medical traits, disease diagnosis results, medical diagnosis practices for similar diseases, platforms for personal doctor-patient discussion, diagnosis, alarms and notifications systems for checkup appointments, medicine intakes, injections and laboratory checkups, etc.Globally, different countries have implemented frameworks and platforms of E-Health Solutions. With this good results like “conversion of paper based medical entry system to digital platform, tracking of medical anomaly (epidemics and hazards tracking, birth and death rates tracking), management of Medical Inventory and human resource availability, alarming individuals in taking daily hygienic diets and exercises, etc has been achievedE-Health and mobile technologies combined together can play a significant role in achieving sustainable development goals. In global level E-Health solutions can reach every rural, deprived nukes and isles of globe. But it will take a long time. With sufficient use of healthcare technologies and e-health we can achieve Good Health which is one out of seventeen sustainable goals. But this will play an important role in achieving rest of the development goals.Thank You and Cheers !

I do not mean to sound harsh, but Quora is not a telemedicine platform. Asking for and receiving treatment protocols over an Internet forum is risky to say the least. If you have doubts about the diagnosis or the recommended treatment, you would be advised to speak with another cardiologist for a second opinion, especially if you are not sure about whether other reasons for late onset-cardiomyopathy, which may mimic Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (like tachymyopathy due to atrial fibrillation or ischemic cardiomyopathy due to LAD infarction) have been sufficiently ruled out. In case of an emergency, you should call 911 asap (stating the obvious here).My suggestion would be the same as to any geriatric patient with congestive heart failure and any (older or younger) patient with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy:If you are not the patient, discuss with him/ her about their fears, their symptoms and their expectations from life.If they are unable to do the following due to old age, dementia or frailty, try to help them or get professional nursing care so that the following can be accomplished:Restrict daily intake of salt and fluids according to your physician’s recommendations (the average recommendation would be to restrict fluid intake to 1.5 Liters per day, all fluids combined), with possible adjustments for periods of increased perspiration or infections.Measure body weight every morning after urination/ before breakfast: If the weight increases by more than 1.5 kg (or 3 pounds) within 2 weeks, it is usually due to fluid retention, so the GP or the cardiologist may have to adjust the dose of the diuretics.Measure and document blood pressure and heart rate at least twice daily, once before taking the morning medication and once before taking the evening medication. Your GP or cardiologist will inform you on when to skip which drugs or how to adjust the dosage according to fluctuations in blood pressure and/ or heart rate.Adhere to the diagnostic follow-up regarding blood tests (for monitoring electrolyte levels and renal function) and ultrasound of the heart (for detecting any changes in the left ventricular function).Take any new or worsening symptoms seriously and call 911 sooner than later.Try to shield yourself from psychological stress, which is especially harmful in the case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. If needed, discuss with your GP, a psychologist or psychiatrist if there are any options to further help you overcome stress.Remember that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy can and does get better in a significant number of patients. You are not alone in battling the disease.I wish you the best of luck!